Aftermath is a 1966 album by the English rock band the Rolling Stones.
Following a newfound success that rivalled their contemporaries in the
Beatles, the album is the Stones' first to consist entirely of original
songs, all credited to Mick Jagger and Keith Richards (both pictured),
who wrote dark, sarcastic, provocative lyrics about love, desire, power
and dominance, modern society and rock stardom. Brian Jones experimented
with instruments not usually associated with popular music, including
the sitar, Appalachian dulcimer and marimbas, which expanded the band's
music beyond their blues and R&B; influences. An immediate success
rivalling the Beatles' Rubber Soul (1965), Aftermath reflected youth
culture in the Swinging London scene and countercultural values while
pioneering the album era and subversive content in punk and glam rock.
It is considered the most formative of the Stones' early music and their
first classic album, frequently appearing on professional rankings of
the greatest albums.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aftermath_%28Rolling_Stones_album%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1738:
Serse (audio featured), an opera by Baroque composer George
Frideric Handel loosely based on Xerxes I of Persia, premiered in
London.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serse>
1936:
A group of Arabs in British Mandatory Palestine killed two Jews
at a roadblock, an act widely viewed as the beginning of violence within
the Arab revolt.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_Tulkarm_shooting>
1958:
On Walter O'Malley's initiative, the Los Angeles Dodgers and
San Francisco Giants played the first Major League Baseball game on the
U.S. West Coast.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_O%27Malley>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
mummy brown:
1. (painting, historical) A brown pigment originally prepared from the
ground-up remains of Egyptian animal or human mummies mixed with
bitumen, etc.
2. The colour of this pigment, a variable brown intermediate between raw
umber and burnt umber. mummy brown:
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mummy_brown>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Life being all inclusion and confusion, and art being all
discrimination and selection, the latter, in search of the hard latent
value with which it alone is concerned, sniffs round the mass as
instinctively and unerringly as a dog suspicious of some buried bone.
--Henry James
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_James>
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